It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.
To be free is to have achieved your life.
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in
Luck is believing you're lucky.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.
What's talent but the ability to get away with something?
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos--...
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
All good art is an indiscretion.
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implaca...
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent
For time is the longest distance between two places.
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.