Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

When there is no hope, one must invent hope.