I can change, but as we speak now, I really have zero desire to see my name in the press.
Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.
Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow. " Their name is today.
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.
In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want—not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.