The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

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

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.