There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

A day should be your controlling and managing factor

Our children belong to God. We're only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected.

Is it shocking?" he asked sarcastically. "To discover that there are things you don't know?

Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.