I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.