Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures . . . that is devishly hard! But only thence does the road lead.…

We are finding out that what looked like a neglected house a year ago is in fact a ruin.

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it w…

He would agree that life is a little worth living - or worth living a little; but would remark that, unfortunately, to live little enough, we have to live a gr…

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meanin…