The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.