"I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses."

"You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else."

"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar."

"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world."

"I often see through things right to the apparition itself."

"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."

"I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads."

"The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life."

"I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander."