The Artist Vocation Is To Send Light

Ever Since Time Began The World Has Seemed Stupid To Those Who Aren't Stupid Themselves. It Was To Avoid That Annoyance That I Became Stupid Myself, As Fast As Ever I Could. Sheer Egoism, No Doubt.

Faith Is An Excitement And An Enthusiasm: It Is A Condition Of Intellectual Magnificence To Which We Must Cling As To A Treasure, And Not Squander On Our Way Through Life In The Small Coin Of Empty Words, Or In Exact And Priggish Argument.

Life Is A Slate Where All Our Sins Are Written; From Time To Time We Rub The Sponge Of Repentance Over It So We Can Begin Sinning Again.

All Your Trouble Comes From Lack Of Exercise. A Man Of Your Strength And Constitution Ought Always To Have Kept Physically Active. So Don't Jibe At The Very Wise Advice That Sentences You To One Hour's Walk A Day. You Imagine The Work Of The Mind Takes Place Only In The Brain; But You're Much Mistaken. It Takes Place In The Legs As Well.

... What Is There Over Which The Incomparable Beauty Of Childhood Would Not Triumph?