...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

One must live well to know what living is.

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.