It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.