It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

What we know of others is our personal secret.

How difficult it is to be simple.

Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.