"It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else."

"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit"

"Feeding the starving poor only increases their number."

"I wanted to believe and I tried my damndest to believe in the rainbow that I tried to get over and couldn't. So what? Lots of people can't..."

"A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."

"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."

"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

"We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life."

"Where we go and what we do advertises what we are."

"In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life."