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

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

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

There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

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.