The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

Glance is the enemy of vision.

America is a lunatic asylum.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.