It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.