You are at enmity with yourself.
The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.
When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet. . . When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world.
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.
What problems?" "Well for starters. . you're an evil duck killer.
My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.
When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.