“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.”

“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”

“These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.”

“For the intellectual, material comforts are relatively unimportant.”

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

“For all serious intellectual progress depends upon a certain kind of independence of outside opinion, which cannot exist where the will of the majority is treated with that kind of religious respect which the orthodox give to the will of God.”