"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."

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

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

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self."

"The freedom of all is essential to my freedom."

"Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known."

"Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers."

"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission."

"The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass."

"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."