You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.

I never forgive attacks on my work.

What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.