"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."

"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."

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

"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."

"The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."

"I don't want people to kiss my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it."

"Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow."