Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.

You can make the world beautiful just by refusing to lie about it.

Rain may cleanse the Earth, but it doesn't wash away our tears.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.