The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.

We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

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.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.