The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

No one can transcend their own individuality.