Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

This is the century of fear.