“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

“Anyone would think paintings were made like speculations on the stock market, out of the frictions of ambitious young people… …it sharpens the mind, but clouds your judgement.”

“Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.”

“Mind at rest is the Temple of Joy. So long as it is gurgling with its desires, passions and attachments in its stormy surface, the signature of joy gets ruffled out.”

“Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.”

“The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.”

“Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.”

“When planning, you need to make the mind or thoughts clear like the sky, thus removing all the clouds.”

“The fancied clearness of Utopian vision is illusory, because its objects are artificial ideas and not living facts.”

“We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.”