كم هي مؤلمة ساعة الفراق البطيئة، خاصة فراق الأصدقاء العظام. فالأفضل الانقطاع دفعة واحدة، والعودة إلى الوحدة - Nikos Kazantzakis

كنت أعجب لقوته هذة وقدرته على احتقار البشر إلى هذا الحد، وفي نفس الوقت لوجود هذة الرغبة عنده في أن يعيش ويعمل معهم. أما أنا فإما أن أصبح ناسكاً، وإما أن أزين البشر بريشٍ زائف كي أستطيع تحملهم.

Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.

I strive to discover how to signal my companions before I die, how to give them a hand, how to spell out for them in time one complete word at least, to tell them what I think this procession is, and toward what we go. And how necessary it is for all of us together to put our steps and hearts in harmony. To say in time a simple word to my companions, a password, like conspirators. Yes, the purpose of Earth is not life, it is not man. Earth has existed without these, and it will live on without them. They are but the ephemeral sparks of its violent whirling. Let us unite, let us hold each other tightly, let us merge our hearts, let us create — so long as the warmth of this earth endures, so long as no earthquakes, cataclysms, icebergs or comets come to destroy us — let us create for Earth a brain and a heart, let us give a human meaning to the superhuman struggle. This anguish is our second duty.