Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.