Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

But nothing is all black in nature.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?