Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.