Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have to go out, someone will try to take you out, and you will not understand them or what they are saying, unless you understand nothing, absolutely nothing, then you will manage.

I've seen death and I didn't like it.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.