“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. ”

“Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.”

“The day was gone, the twilight was gone, and the snow was invisible as I came down to the side of the lake. Only the moon, white and shining, was in the sky, like a woman glorying in her own loveliness as she loiters superbly to the gaze of all the world, looking sometimes through the fringe of dark olive leaves, sometimes looking at her own superb, quivering body, wholly naked in the water of the lake.”

“If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.”

“Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.”

“There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.”

“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.”