Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

Party politics is now a real farce.