See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
My home is not a place, it is people.