A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.