Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.