To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.