Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.