The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. All our faculties keep us within the realm of the real, of what is already there. The most we can do is to combine things or break them up. The metaphor alone furnishes an escape; between the real things, it lets emerge imaginary reefs, a crop of floating islands.

The will to be oneself is heroism

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.