"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."

"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."

"The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?"