There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.