After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other - male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.