Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.