There are different kinds of artists and very often, I’ll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Each person’s life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That’s when I feel beautiful.