To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.