Great Throughts Treasury

"You have to know what you want to get. But when you know that, let it take you. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back because that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry."

"You look ridiculous if you dance."

"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures."

"You have to learn to do everything, even to die."

"You attract what you need like a lover"

"You should only read what is truly good or frankly bad."

"You look ridiculous if you don't dance."

"You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place"

"You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived."