People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.