The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.