Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.