Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?