Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.