I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.