I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.