The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.