“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.”

For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.

I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.

Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

The dead don’t die. They look on and help.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.

The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.

We fucked a flame into being.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Your attitude is more important that your aptitude.

Don’t try to change anyone, change how you deal with them.