There is nothing new in art except talent.

The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.