People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.

But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.