What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
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.