“From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola”
“Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.”
“I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees’ nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn’t so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery.”
“I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.”
“Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.”
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”