The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.