Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.