"There is one way never to see it lost, and that is to die in the last ditch."

"Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern — why then should it trouble us that …"

"A happy coincidence brought together the really talented men whose characters and gifts, even in human terms, left them with no other choice than the profession of artist. This form of living, of dwel…"

"At the end of the second day as I was lying all alone, I saw clearly a being, with a part of the head cut off, in a military uniform approaching me and suddenly flinging himself upon my chest, with th…"

"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists."