An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.