And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.