Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.

Nothingness haunts Being.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

To choose not to choose is still to act.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].