"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."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

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

"The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self."

"No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself."

"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like."

"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"

"FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude."

"France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper."

"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."