We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

A more peaceful world and a more peaceful century require that we rely not on weapons but on developing a widespread inner peace.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

I was a good student. By 8th grade, you've basically learned everything. By senior year, we was drinking, we was kickin' it, we was rapping. It wasn't really like business, hard work.

love is the every only god

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

Humans can think inhuman thoughts.