Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.