The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.