Truth

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

There is nothing that is not the truth.

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

The sun through the curtains isn't really a window in the sky, it's just a big hole.

That's God. That's our true selves. That's in our hearts.

Art is the intellectual weather of the world.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

I am a recording instrument. I do not presume to impose 'story' 'plot' 'continuity.'

What can a woman do when truth, even a subjective truth, speaks only one language and that language is generally male?

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

I think that the task of a thinker today is not to provide answers, but to show that the way we perceive a problem is false.

Identity is not as transparent or unchanging as we would like to think.

One way of looking at it is that mystery is something that will always be with us. It can be thought of as the error that presses us towards the truth.

The past is a history of human beings seeking salvation, not of philosophers seeking the truth.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.