What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
Truth is a matter of the imagination.
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.