Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.

My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow.

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

I was about one drink away from my limit, In came a black dress with a black body in it, She looked so timid, it took me a minute To get her in focus

Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.