I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly, and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Everyone has their divine calling and purpose

Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy, " he said.

People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.

Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.