Storm Jameson

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

The hunger of the spirit for eternity, as fierce as a starving man's for bread, is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

Language is memory and metaphor.

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement and the only time we see it clearly of life itself.

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

Hope is a talent like any other.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.