“The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.”

“Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors...”

“Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline.”

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”

“In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.”