The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.