You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

almost all novels are love stories.

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.