"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"I'm not going to be a hero. I'm going to be a writer."

"The radical invention of the mind is the only true thing."

"Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression."

"One cat just leads to another."

"I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults... but I'm very faithful."

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth..."

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."

"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

"I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different..."

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."

"But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose."