“If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.”
“Ambition is a poor excuse for not being smart enough to be lazy.”
“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”
“I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them."...Lucy”
“But it happens, and I am thankful enough for that, for those fleeting, wakeful moments of beauty and truth. They are the real joy of being human, brief matches that flare in the dark.”
“Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”