"Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae."

"We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought."

"I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed."

"After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble."

I would . . . be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.