No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

Mortality defines the human condition.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

What you think of others is what you know about yourself