Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

In my dreams I sleep with everybody.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.