When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.