A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.