Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.