“The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.”

“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”

“Everyman has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.”

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”

“For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.”

“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

“They never opened the door which leads to the soul.”