Few books today are forgivable.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

Alan Smith... very much a striker, by reputation... and by fact