You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.