“Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas.”

“Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.”

“I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.”

“After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”

“Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be.”

“I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than of logic: the philosopher believes not according to evidence, but according to his own temperament; and his thinking merely serves to make reasonable what his instinct regards as true.”