Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

When you move into a spiritual approach to life you begin to see yourself as connected to everyone and everything, and competition is replaced by something called cooperation.