Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.
Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.
The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.
Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.
The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.
Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.
It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.
You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits and giggles? Or was this nothing more than a fraternity prank? Please tell me that you didn’t just ruin my integrity to get some kind of drinking points. This is something I’ve been working for since before you were born. How dare you make a mockery of me. I hope to God that one day someone degrades you like this so that you’ll know, just once in your spoiled pompous life, what humiliation feels like! (Tory)