What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."