It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.

What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

A light here required a shadow there.