We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!

We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.