If You Want To Be

When We Say We Are Certain So-and-so Can't Possibly Have Done It, What We Mean Is That We Think He Very Likely Did.

The Vitality Of A New Movement In Art Must Be Gauged By The Fury It Arouses.

The Test Of A Vocation Is The Love Of The Drudgery It Involves.

The Notion Of Making Money By Popular Work, And Then Retiring To Do Good Work, Is The Most Familiar Of All The Devil's Traps For Artists.

Fine Writers Should Split Hairs Together, And Sit Side By Side, Like Friendly Apes, To Pick The Fleas From Each Others Fur.