A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.