Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.