Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.