One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

The insecure way is the secure way.

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.