The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?

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

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.