What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he...
There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels, he can sleep.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent, it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Inspiration comes of working every day.
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.