I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.

The obstacles of life is meant to make us better, not bitter.

Desire to be thin grows bigger and bigger. As does my appetite.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

I'm really too young to go out into the world alone, " he thought as he lay down.

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table.

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

I have noticed that teachers get exciting confused with boring a lot.