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There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

I steer clear of any novel that gets billed as a 'meditation.'

Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.