Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

You too have weapons.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.