Being aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.

Being able to remain on that dizzying crest - that is integrity and the rest is subterfuge.

But I have been sought out, as each individual has been sought out. Artists of the past could at least keep silent in the face of tyranny. The tyrannies of tod…

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of conscious…

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

It's this way: being captured is beside the point, the point is not to surrender.