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

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

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

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”