"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles."

"One good turn deserves another."

"Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal."

"Don't be afraid to see what you see."

"No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind."

"I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things."

"'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?' 'Well, that would be a start.'"