Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

- Theodore Dreiser

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet…

- Theodore Dreiser

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

- Theodore Dreiser

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

- Theodore Dreiser

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

- Theodore Dreiser

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

- Theodore Dreiser

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

- Theodore Dreiser

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

- Theodore Dreiser

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a m…

- Theodore Dreiser