“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”

“My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You didn't know it then-you know it now.”

“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

“What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.”

“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.”