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.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.