We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.