In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.