“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead”

“Letting go is never easy. Especially when you can’t see where you’re going to land. But I’ve learned that sometimes, you just have to throw your weight behind the change. Take the chance that you may fall.”

“I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can’t be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary... I forget the third thing.”

“I learned that attention is a prize, in love. The first thing you give. And the first thing to go, when the ‘new’ wears off.”

“Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don’t waste your time crying over what you’re not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can’t see all the beautiful things around you.”

“First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still alive.”