The devil — one might face anything if one but knew what was to be faced! ~117, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962 - Sherwood Anderson

There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that talk. Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately, almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.