Perhaps Quotes

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom

Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn’t always equal to oneself.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.