I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

Be liked and you will never want.

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.