There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

Everything hinges on how you look at things

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.