Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

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

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

Even the idiot may have a message for us