It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.