Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.