As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.

Time will say nothing but I told you so.

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.