We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.