An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

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

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.