He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.

You fall in love with people's minds.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.