A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

The cancer of time is eating us away