The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

When all around you are losing their heads, use Cosmic Ordering.

We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you!

I am a living soap opera.