“History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.”

“In the end the war was Hitler's war. It was not perhaps the war he wanted. But it was the war he was prepared to risk if he had to. Nothing could deter him...He was no longer prepared to wait on events. He needed to force them to manipulate them to manufacture incidents to create pretexts for action.”

“Take the first step. No more, no less, and the next will be revealed.”

“Sophisticated Hindus do not think of God as a special and separate superperson who rules the world from above, like a monarch. Their God is "underneath" rather than "above" everything, and he (or it) plays the world from inside.”

“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.”

“No tengo amigos. Es demasiado peligroso" La ardilla miedosa.”

“For, ultimately, isn't all laughter only the echo of an original revolt against the almighty: a never-ending scream against the absurdity of our exile from him?”