The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.

By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

Where will we go?""I hear hell is particularly nice at this time of year.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

I feel very lucky to be part of this amazing show [Exorcist] with such an amazing cast of actors, with a really talented writer behind it all.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

From no place can you exclude the fates. [Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.]

I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

If you're not overprepared, you're underprepared.

The only person who can really motivate you is you.