I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

I work whenever I'm let.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

words can never get at the truth.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

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.

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.