We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.