About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

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.