The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

No man is a devil in his own mind.