By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred..

Words are just words..

lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.

But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing ….

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance..

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not….

I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I shoul….

Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating..

Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220….

I tend to like things that already exist..

I don't like things that aren't true..

I'm reverent from a distance..

Only describe, don't explain..

What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth..

Money cannot buy happiness..

You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God..

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that..

That which comes slow comes solid..

I don’t predict a nonexisting future..

Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these grains also move ….