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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
[ Example ]
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The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.
[ Talent ]
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An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
[ Solitude ]
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I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.
[ Integrity ]
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We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
[ Society ]
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We do not talk -- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
[ Conversation ]
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
[ Growth ]
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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
[ Potential ]
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When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
[ Potential ]
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One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
[ Attitude ]
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The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
[ Boredom ]
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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
[ Enemies ]
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Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
[ Procrastination ]
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
[ Democracy ]
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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
[ Hope ]
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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
[ Crime ]
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.
[ Progress ]
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Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.
[ Reality ]
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
[ Heroes ]
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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
[ Passion ]
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