“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”

“Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.”

“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”

“We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.”

“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”

“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”

“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us”