Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.