A Self-made Martyr Is A Poor Thing.

The Surest Way Of Winning Love Is To Look As If You Didn't Need It.

... Beauty, Like Ecstasy, Has Always Been Hostile To The Commonplace. And The Commonplace, Under Its Popular Label Of The Normal,has Been The Supreme Authority For Homo Sapiens Since The Days When He Was Probably Arboreal.

Mediocrity Would Always Win By Force Of Numbers, But It Would Win Only More Mediocrity.

Only On The Surface Of Things Have I Ever Trod The Beaten Path. So Long As I Could Keep From Hurting Anyone Else, I Have Lived, As Completely As It Was Possible, The Life Of My Choice. I Have Been Free. . . . I Have Done The Work I Wished To Do For The Sake Of That Work Alone.

Violence Commands Both Literature And Life, And Violence Is Always Crude And Distorted.