“My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.”

“The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.”

“My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.”

“Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.”

“The will to power, the force of desire, appears as an insensitive urge to dominate. But several points in Nietzsche’s work speak against such a reading. The “self” includes the desire above all for self-overcoming. It is our own limits we most seek to break.”

“All my friends and relatives have always taken a condescending tone to my writing, and never ceased urging me in a friendly way not to give up real work for the sake of scribbling.”