Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one’s own eyes-which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification- which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.

Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.