Everything hinges on how you look at things

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

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

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

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.