The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.