There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

Death is the room that is always empty.