The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn’t understand the horse dealer’s language.
I live, like every real man, in my work.
You can’t make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.
There is no such thing, as far as I’m concerned, as ownership in love.
The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body – we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!
I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.
The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
Why don’t we follow our yearning?
Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.
I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.
My greatest fear: repetition.
There is no art without Eros.
Every uniform corrupts one’s character.
The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
If anyone has a conscience it’s generally a guilty one.