I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.

I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.