In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.