It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.

Art must not serve might.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.