“It is not the outside of people that bothers me, but the inside.”

“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.”

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”

“Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.”

“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”

“Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.”

“The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.”

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”

“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”

“Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.”

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”