I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

If you haven't had your life what have you had?

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games