Embrace reality by imagination.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

The more Chaotic I am, the more complete I am.

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

It was the straying that found the path direct.

Kiss away the past as you head towards the future.

Not every dog that barks, bites.

Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic.

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.