No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.