No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

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.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.