Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.

You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.