Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.