Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.