The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.