Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.