Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.
The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.