To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

All human suffering concerns each human being.

Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.