"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential part of the process of discovering what we are doing and thinking and feeling."

"The one thing that makes it possible to get through life is to laugh. If you don't laugh, you're dead."

"The only true voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

"An unfree mind is a mind that has been taught to believe in what is untrue."

"We have no right to consume happiness without producing it."