For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
The Diver

It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.
The Immortal Story

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.
The invincible slave-owners

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
Sorrow-Acre

People who dream ... know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom ... the freedom of the artist.
Out of Africa

Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
Letters from Africa

Straight is the line of duty. Curved is the line of beauty.
The Monkey

The will to sacrifice ... was the disdain of death.
Daguerreotypes