We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

This is the century of fear.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

Art does not tolerate reason.

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.