letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

Every desire has a relation to madness.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

She's as plastic as you are! I'm telling you, it's a bad idea. If the two of you have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisherprice stamped on their butts!

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Because it's still a heartache. And nothing makes you want to die more than that.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.