Old men ought to be explorers.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.