What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.

We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

Absolutely. No more pretending!

It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

President Can't Swim.

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.

There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.