"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."

"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."

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

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors."

"Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."

"The experience of this sweet life.L'esperienza de questa dolce vita."

"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."

"I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life."

"ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it. Enough is as good as a feast -- for that matter Enougher's as good as a feast for the platter. Arbely C. Strunk"