Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.

To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.

A top aide to Donald Trump says he quit the campaign this weekend because of Trump's public feuds, but Trump said he was fired. When asked what he was fired for, Trump said, 'Quitting!'

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.

Some people are going to have to die or leave.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.