“When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.”

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

The goal of all life is death.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

I know people who believe in ghosts but don’t believe in themselves.

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

It’s what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.

Don’t sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.

There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?