We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.

I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.