"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."

"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return."

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."

"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."