Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit.

The grace of life is gratefulness.

Unfortunately I never learnedhow to touch my truth without breaking it.

My past is an echo of my perfect present being the shadow of my stellar future.

Only God knows the unknown

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point and to go directly to that point looking neither to the right nor the left.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and grace.

I can make choices that make me happy, and it will ripple and benefit my kids, my husband, and my physical health. That's hard for women to own; we're not taught to do that.

I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.