The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.

There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself, is that what love is?

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

I'm blessed that I am recognized.

Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

Nobody ever learns anything.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself.