It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

I don't think I'm destined for love.

Man is what he believes – believe in yourself

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.

We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.

Don't cry about money, it never cries for you.

As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me.

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him.