The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.
Writers are not meant for action.
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion. . . Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.