“Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.”

“Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own.”

“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”

“Only an object can suffer, but phenomenally subject and object, being one whole, spin like a coin so that the intervals between pile et face (heads and tails) are imperceptible. Consequently pain, or pleasure, appear to be continual.Noumenally, on the contrary, there is no object to suffer pain or pleasure. Noumenon is invulnerable, and cannot be otherwise. Noumenon is the unmanifested aspect of what we, sentient beings, are: Phenomenon is our manifestation.”

“Watching wild landscapes I forget distanceand come to the water's edge.”

“Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.”

“Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.”