"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."

"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."

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

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over."

"Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal."

"Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you."

"Happily ever after doesn't come free, but I'd give anything to have it."

"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be."