And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.