The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.