Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.

What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.