A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.