Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

I do not care if nobody resembles me.

Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling.

The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.

Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.