There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.

I am I plus my circumstances.