Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.