I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

I suppose a human's carriage is a dwarf's bus.

Seeds of doubt, once planted, will grow.

Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection.

I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.