The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

The truth may make you bitter

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It’s a must have.

If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!

For the Staffel: attack on principle in groups of four or six. When the fight breaks up into a series of single combats, take care that several do not go for one opponent.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.