We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.

I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.