I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.