"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."

"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."

"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."

"You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'"

"There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation."

"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably."

"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."