Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.
A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.
I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn’t be able to do it.
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
Only a fool is not afraid.
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?
With our human limitations we’re not always able to understand the explanations.
I don’t know if they’re really like everybody else, or if they’re able to pretend they are.
And joy is always a promise.
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.
Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.
I can’t think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.
If you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy.
You don’t want him for a reason. You want him because he’s your father.
You’re going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.