Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.