You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.