Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Those who are ill informed about change will be at risk for a rough future

As I opened my eyes and witnessed the whites

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

Every girl wants to be the one girl that can change that guy

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.

The only way cheese is dessert is when it's followed by the word cake.

Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig.

No one is easy until you actually beat them.