The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.