Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

when I am working I immediately feel hopeful.

all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.