It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential.

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

I have a long-term interest in the humanities.

What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.

Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

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