If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Talent borrows, genius steals!

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.