“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training”

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”

“In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.”

“Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.”

“The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.”

“London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.”

“And it is only after seeing man as his unconscious, revealed by his dreams, presents him to us that we shall understand him fully. For as Freud said to Putnam: "We are what we are because we have been what we have been.”