It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

...the still point in a turning world.

Do I dare disturb the universe?

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.