“By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.”

“We create our fate every day that we live.”

“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.”

“We create our fate everyday”

“We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”

“...the angel in man-- has also been my own life-long obsession. In a sense I believe it has always been the problem of the creative being... obsessed... with the idea of re-creating the world in order, as I see it, to re-establish man's innocence.”

“This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art…”