The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

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 dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

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

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.