If A Young Writer Can Refrain From

The Pettiness Of A Mind Can Be Measured By The Pettiness Of Its Adoration Or Its Blasphemy.

One Should Want Only One Thing And Want It Constantly. Then One Is Sure Of Getting It. But I Desire Everything, And Consequently Get Nothing.

The Great Artist Is One Whom Constraint Exalts, For Whom The Obstacle Is A Springboard.

The Difficulty Comes From This, That Christianity (christian Orthodoxy) Is Exclusive And That Belief In Its Truth Excludes Belief In Any Other Truth. It Does Not Absorb; It Repulses.

The Public Always Prefers To Be Reassured. There Are Those Whose Job This Is. There Are Only Too Many.