The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.

I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called 'culture' - and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species.

Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.