"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"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."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"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."

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."

"Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself."

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."

"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."

"A joy that's shared is a joy made double."

"I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company."

"I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any."