You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.