To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =