The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.
I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.
The very essence of success is practice.
Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience.