• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

• We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

• I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

• Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.

• But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.