Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.