Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

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

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.