You waste life when you waste good food.

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.