[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.