The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier to become a real estate agent.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

When found, make a note of.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

A friend is someone that won't begin to talk behind your back when you leave the room.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

The whales, you see, eat up the little fish.

Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.