The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things.

Infuse your life with action.

I'd like to thank ma da (dad)... my mum for doin' aw ma washin'

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.