The heart looks into space to be away from earth.

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.

Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.