You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.