Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

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.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller.The storyteller didn't exist anymore.

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."