The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

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

Infants are interesting only to their parents.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.