When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

Deep experience is never peaceful.