Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

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

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.