No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.

Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death.

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

Know your audience. If I don't share in a way that will be understood, I lose my ability to connect.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

Lena Smoothed her hair. "Crazy weather you have down here.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

An angry lover tells himself many lies.

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.