"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."

"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."

"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."

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."

"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."

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?"

"Moral victories don't count."

"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?"

"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for."

"Traveling there was really boring so I headed for the ditch. It was a rough ride but I met more interesting people there."

"No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding."