One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

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?

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.