One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.