Before I Write Down One Word, I

Whenever I Take Up A Newspaper, I Seem To See Ghosts Gliding Between The Lines. There Must Be Ghosts All The Country Over, As Thick As The Sand Of The Sea.... We Are, One And All, So Pitifully Afraid Of The Light.

Before I Write Down One Word, I Have To Have The Character In My Mind Through And Through. I Must Penetrate Into The Last Wrinkle Of His Soul.

The Devil Is Compromise.

So To Conduct One's Life As To Realize Oneself-this Seems To Me The Highest Attainment Possible To A Human Being. It Is The Task Of One And All Of Us, But Most Of Us Bungle It.

I Have Other Duties Equally Sacred ... Duties To Myself.