Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.

I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.

Learn to say no, know when to say yes, and use the words ‘I choose.’ It is the key that will open you to limitless manifestation of your beingness.

No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.