There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.