"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."

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

"He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."

"If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon."

"Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence."

"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."

"Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue."

"Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends."