No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.