If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity. Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.
Creativity is not enough. . . the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.
The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle of organisation, which governs the flesh and endows it with meaning. It is no more separable from the flesh than is the house from its bricks, even if the soul may survive the gradual replacement of every bodily part.
Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls
One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.
Thiar ain't no sense In gittin' riled!
Let me sum up in two words how the unhinged Left copes with the threat of global jihad: "Kill Bush!"