It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.