I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

Be respectful of words. They mean something.

There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

words can never get at the truth.