The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.