Once you teach me something$$$ it's mine to use.

Friends will hand over anything that is needed and think nothing of it!

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.

I don't like the word 'allegorical'$$$ I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic'$$$ and people always think that means 'full of lies'$$$ whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's$$$ and then everything followed from there.

Art is partly communication$$$ but only partly. The rest is discovery.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

What color is in a picture$$$ enthusiasm is in life.

The heart of man is very much like the sea$$$ it has its storms$$$ it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.