Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

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.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

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.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.