Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
