A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

There is too little courtship in the world.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

I think death is a big deal, obviously.

The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.