The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.