One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.