There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

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.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

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

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.