Έχουν να πουν πως άνθρωπος είναι το ζώο που συλλογιέται το θάνατο. Όχι, σου λέω εγώ. Άνθρωπος είναι το ζώο που συλλογιέται την αθανασία. - Nikos Kazantzakis

But we, O blockhead, with dogged spite and armored love
shall force those deaf dark powers to grow ears and hear us!
I know that God is earless, eyeless, and heartless too,
a brainless Dragon Worm that crawls on earth and hopes
in anguish and then in secret that we'll give him soul,
for then he, too, may sprout ears, eyes, to match his growth,
but God is clay in my ten fingers, and I mould him!

Доста време седяхме около мангала и мълчахме и двамата. Отново се уверих колко просто и скромно нещо е щастието - чаша вино, един кестен, едно нищо и никакво мангалче, шумът на морето, нищо друго. Нужно е само, за да почувстваш, че всички тези неща са щастието, едно просто и скромно сърце.

I thank God that this refreshing childhood vision still lives inside me in all its fullness of color and sound. This is what keeps my mind untouched by wastage, keeps it from withering and running dry. It is the sacred drop of immortal water which prevents me from dying. When I wish to speak of the sea, woman, or God in my writing, I gaze down in my breast and listen carefully to what the child within me says. He dictates to me; and if it sometimes happens that I come close to these great forces of the sea, woman, and God, approach them by means of words and depict them, I owe it to the child who still lives within me. I become a child again to enable myself to view the world always for the first time, with virgin eyes.