Nikos Kazantzakis

My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil!

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

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation... God does not love weak souls and flabby flesh. The spirit desires to wrestle with flesh which is strong and full of resistance. It is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear.

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.