"What is important is to be able to stand on one's own feet, to be able to say 'I'."

"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or no eyes."

"The fact that there is a world, that there are things, that there are people, that there are events, is a source of constant amazement to me."

"I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather flow like water over and around things, than be contained in a box."

"I am a cage, in search of a bird."