There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.