Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.