“The here and the beyond are enough, but there were a few angels for whom it was not enough: who demanded a third dimension--who sought fusions, communes, who ate each other and created sex.”

“There is one class to whom reflection is a fault; is not only a fault, is a sin; is not only a sin, is an atrocity - who cannot bear to exist without their own existence dis-existencing somebody else's existence.”

“Every plant is an individual.Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.”

“If you let the alembic cool, metaphor becomes superstition.”

“You show me a teenager who doesn’t like to be flattered and I’ll show you a teenager who’s got a steady source of sex.”

“arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.”

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”