The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living

Jazz is the music of the body

If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country

Dreams are necessary to life

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