“Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?”

“We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.”

“Facts always are sensational. ”

“We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.”

“But I had this idea also that you don't take so wide a stance that it makes a human llife impossible, nor try to bring together irreconcilables that destroy you, but try out what of human you can live with first. And if the highest should come in that empty overheated tavern with its flies and the hot radio buzzing between the plays and plugged beer from Sox Park, what are you supposed to do but take the mixture and say imperfection is always the condidtion as found; all great beauty too, my scratched eyeballs will always see scratched.”

“Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.”

“Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.”