You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

If one believes, then miracles occur.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

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

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.