A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

But some climbs you have to make alone.

Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess.

I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth – a small machine.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

A mortal life with love is endlessly superior to an immortal life without love.

Everyday I'm Hustlin'.

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.