Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Fear is the mother of morality.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.