It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."

"When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach."