It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

When there is no hope, one must invent hope.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.