"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"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."

"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."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"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."

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated."

"His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best."

"The future is a boot smashing a human face forever."

"There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out."

"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature."

"You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have."