"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions."

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

"The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic."

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like."

"That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation."

"Don't say yes until I finish talking."

"The more you suffer , the more you show you really care."

"The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page."

"Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards."