I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.