The best technique is none at all.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.