“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
“The ego is not master in its own house.”
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.”
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”
“Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.”
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.”
“Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.”
“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”
“Art is nothing without form.”
“What is beautiful is moral. That is all there is to it.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
“Exuberance is better than taste.”