"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
"You don’t make art out of good intentions."
"There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me"