Great Throughts Treasury

"I see myself as a man who is searching for the meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not yet found the direction yet."

"Can art be completely invented? It’s a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination."

"The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation."