I've never cared whether I shock people because I think people shocked by the truth are not deserving of the truth. The truth is something one has to deserve.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

A man who will not listen carefully to advice honestly given is a fool. Of course$$$ a man who blindly takes any advice he receives is a bigger fool.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero$$$ Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

Throughout the hours of the night$$$ though there had been few to hear it$$$ the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

The whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

A director must be a policeman$$$ a midwife$$$ a psychoanalyst$$$ a sycophant and a bastard.

Art finds her own perfection within$$$ and not outside of$$$ herself.<br>She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.