All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.