a culture is no better than its woods

We must love one another or die

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

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

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

Water is the soul of the Earth.