One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.