Words are loneliness.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

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.

Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.