“Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”

“Even loneliness is not absolute loneliness because the contents of the universe are in him.”

“No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream…”

“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”

“Being someone is being one alone. Being someone is loneliness.”

“No one would ever believe how hard it is to be really alone in a city of millions when you don't have money.”

“It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.”

“The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.”

“Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.”

“A political paradigm shift might be said to occur when the new values are assimilated by the dominant society. These values then become social dogma to members of a new generation, who marvel that anyone could ever have believed otherwise.”