When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Hatred destroys the person who hates.

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.