The Boundary Between Civilization And Barbarism Is

What The Common Man Cannot Understand He Hates.

Only The Brave Should Teach....teaching Is A Vocation. It Is As Sacred As Priesthood; As Innate A Desire, As Inescapable As The Genius Which Compels A Great Artist. If He Has Not The Concern For Humanity, The Love Of Living Creatures, The Vision Of The Priest And The Artist, He Must Not Teach.

Never, If You Can Possibly Help It, Write A Novel. It Is, In The First Place, A Thoroughly Unsocial Act. It Makes One Obnoxious To One's Family And To One's Friends. One Sits About For Many Weeks, Months, Even Years, In The Worst Cases, In A State Of Stupefaction.

I Don't Wait For Moods - You'd Never Get Anything Done If You Did.

Somehow I Had Learned From Thoreau, Who Doubtless Learned It From Confucius, That If A Man Comes To Do His Own Good For You, Then Must You Flee That Man And Save Yourself