"There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go."
"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
"Security is a kind of death."
"Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is."
