"I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world."

“The least touchable object in the world is the eye.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.13, Univ of California Press

“I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.”

“A person who keeps always his profile down-to-earth doesn't have to worry with those who surround or who to go around for he is likely to get only those who are of his ilk and the real worth on the ground.”

“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”

“Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Cream of the Jest: The Lineage of Lichfield, Two Comedies of Evasion”

“If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.”

“Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.”

“There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.”