Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

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.

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

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

Fun is where it's at. That's why you have to be there.

By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away.

I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate. They learn how to ride the energy.

I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

I guess I thought the strength of my wanting would be enough to make him appear.

You have no enemy until you make one.

I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.