Cultivate your Futurism. I'll cultivate my Döblinism.

The world is made of sugar and dirt.

I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.

But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

I read like the flame reads the wood.

My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.