Quotes from Janwillem van de Wetering

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.

Dirty. Dead mice and all. And they call it a restaurant. Bah." "You are still young," Grijpstra said. "The world is held together by dirt. Don't think of it or you'll never eat again.

When nothing can be done it is not a bad idea to do nothing.

Calamities are only calamities if you define them as such; in reality there are only events and all events can be useful.

A tree is a fantastic example of beauty, but who has time to look at a tree?

He looked at his cactus again, the enormous green phallus, the thorned phallus.

The drug dealers are all capitalists and criminals, selling rubbish at high prices. Marijuana and hash should be legalized and the rest should be prohibited.

It's like the songs small children sing. 'Shit and piss. And blood, and sperms and slime and vomit and pus and snot and sweat.

To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.

To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.