resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.

none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.