Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

My reputation grows with every failure.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.