"Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace."

"....from then on I had to give up any relation to nature, as seen . That doesn't mean that I think my things are mathematical or removed from life. By 'nature' I mean something very specific. I think …"

"The conversion of mass to energy and light is the prerogative of every star."

"He lies asleep as it were and it is difficult to believe that he is dead. In life they say he was not beautiful to look at. He had too much of common clay in him and about him was the 'smell of the Ru…"

"I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?"