Blood was flowing – in Bluebeard’s house, in the abattoirs, in the circuses where God had set his seal to whiten the windows. Blood and Milk flowed together.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal.

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.