It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

All Artists are Anarchists.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

I want to be all used up when I die.