If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos about him an order which is his own, to sow strife and ferment so that by the emotional release those who are dead may be restored to life, then it is that I run with joy to the great and imperfect ones, their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.

Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. The tragedy of Greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision.

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

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