Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.