any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

Read, read read. Read everything.

Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.