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.

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.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

We haven't the time to take out time.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.