The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

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.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.