Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

This is an act of war by madmen.

Forget your heaven, and your hell aswell. Cast out your morbid doubt and sleep a hundered years. The inevitable end will find you in your blindness. It will seek you in your slumber, in the numbness of your sweet denial and defile you, dim dreamer. And when death takes you, you will not awake elsewhere for there is no believer's bliss. There is one eternal certinty and that is the abyss.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.