There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

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

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.