Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

That kind of love should've been able to beat sickness. That kind of love should've conquered anything.

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

Baby get ready, get set, please don't go.

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

People who have visions should go see a doctor.

Just to give the audience a breath of fresh air is important.

Savage bears agree with one another.

Hepatitis C was a devastating disease but because fundamental research was done in hepatitis C, it is now curable. It is now absolutely curable with new medications. So this is transformative.