We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.