"I knew i was lost, and i was! And i’ve always have been. We are all lost, we are all chip cracked, but the most intelligent of us learn. In other words we are not masters of our fate, everything happens by chance, and it’s the very people who think they have everything in control and they are running everything who get into the most trouble."

"Eternity isn’t some later time. Eternity isn’t even a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now that all thinking in temporal time cuts off. And if you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere …
the experience of eternity right here and now, in all things, whether thought of as good or evil, is the function of life.
This is it."

"The first welling up of a creative idea must not be disturbed. One should never talk about such ideas before they have taken definite shape, for they are as delicate as newborn babies."

"Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable."

"Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throught the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul."

"When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world."

"People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."