Irving Stone Quotes

He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?""Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.