That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.