Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

Words are loneliness.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.