There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.