Simplicity is complexity resolved

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.

So because you are converting it, you are grabbing back your life.

I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.

But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.

When we teach people to run after miracles, we make them helpless.

I've come to believe in some kind of afterlife. A return to our true selves, a spirit self. We're just in this physical body till we go back to spirit.

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

Oh God! If you save me I will work for you.

In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.