"You can choose to be anything you want to be, but you can't be everything you want to be."

"There are some things one can only achieve by a crazy kind of playfulness."

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

"The greatest danger is that you take yourself too seriously."

"I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, which is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. My poor, dear Milena, you are only a woman, you are not a man, you do not understand that for a man there is alw…"