Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.