I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Sunlight is painting.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.