Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

Just as there are moments when the words flow and it feels like the easiest job in the world, there are many more when I think I have nothing to say, and my journalism training taught me that writing is a job, that you write whether you are inspired or not, and that the only way to unlock creativity is to write through it.

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.