If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

The brain heals the past like an injury.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.