Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

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.

Too much study wears the body. BUT the truth refreshes the soul, sustains the spirit for a beautiful body.

When you can only remember the mundane things you did but do not have any valuable products to show for your time, then you are a time spender.

Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

Beauty is only a look. It has nothing to do with what I'm like inside.

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.