Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you.

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.

Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.

The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.