"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions."

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

"The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self."

"I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself."

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."

"I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist."

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."