Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.