“They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.”

“It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is the spiritual one, which to the average man with his flashes of religious experience, is very often incoherant. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or not all the time, is a vital one, and is what living is like.”

“Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.”

“I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.”

“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”

“Out of the firelight everything was black and silver, black island, rocks and trees carved cleanly out of the sky and silver river with a flashing light rippling back and forth along the lip of the fall.”