To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

Sound and light are two different things, But it's more than just that, isn't it?

It is not our high purposes alone that make us moving creatures, but our humble needs and cravings.

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety . . . we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

If you mean, "My gut feeling is telling me this; therefore I can act on it and I don't have to worry," we say you should never trust your gut.

Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

In L.A., everybody ain't so nice.