Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

To have more, you must first be more.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.