“I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial.” FormBitsStruggleBuddhismAspect Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.” WayHas BeensI CanIdeasBigsMightFormUniverseSuicideSubstanceAssociatesMight Have BeenBangsQualifications Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.” IfsKnowsWritingTwoBookFormThreeFeltTermCreativityWrittenHappenedBuddhismConflictEnlightenmentLiberationRejectionLengthChaptersRejectedEntitledExploringPsychicsEasternEssaysFascinationAntibodies Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I find strangest of all for a muse, a human female. Of course, she's also adept at taking the form of toothless old Japanese men or young English lads with tattoos.” MenWritingHumansFormYoungCoursesPiecesStyleFemaleErasLandscapeMuseTattooLadAdeptToothless Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.” DreamSeemsFormCuttingImagineFundamentalsPsychicsCastration Author:Quentin S. Crisp
