Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

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.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.