I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.