Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

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.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.