It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.