Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.