There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.