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

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

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.