Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.
It’s good to be just plain happy, it’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.
Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown...
History is the myth, the true myth, of man’s fall made manifest in time.
Everything hinges on how you look at things.
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life’s ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn’t matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.