All art is a kind of confession.

I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.