The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.