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.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

I am the soul in limbo.

May God gives you power to accomplish all the great things you were destiny for.

apart from being suicidal I'm fine

The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.

Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?

There is boxing and then there is me. The rest are just falling in line behind me or are trying to get in line to fight me. And that includes Manny Pacquiao too.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.