There ain't no such thing as civilization. — Henry Miller

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

He saw the humorous aspect of everything, which is the real test of the tragic sense.

One feels that [in Knossos, c. 1500 B.C.] man […] was religious in the only way which is becoming to man, by making the most of everything that comes to hand, by extracting the utmost of life from every passing minute.