The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.