It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.