We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

Every Journey has it's own set of dark tunnels, diversions, exits and sources of lights. If we are not focussed enough, we will keep wandering and wandering in the dark tunnels.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

Predictability and great design are not friends.

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness.

Ivy's COOK THE STEAK, DON'T STAKE THE COOK apron.

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

Peppercorn is black and so is the beauty mark of the moon-faces -both rend the heart, yet between them lie enormous spaces

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.