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

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.”

“Hell isother people!”

“So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot poke...”

“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”

“Much more likely youll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If Ive got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.”

“What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.”

“What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myself open to their meanings, which is to try to impress myself at all times wit...”

“Pleasure brings pain, but inner silence brings nothing negative; it is in itself of great value and is a far better way to be than to be in ego states.”