Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

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.

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

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.