But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

Top question of the dying: "What made me sick?

All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.

I think everything depends on money.

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

Happiness was born a twin.

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?