"To live is to feel oneself lost."

"Human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic."

"Revolution is not the uprising against pre-existing order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one."

"Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved."

"I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."

"I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in."

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

"We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves."