The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.