"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."

"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize."

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that the greatest battles are fought within."