I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Despite our challenges, hope lies in the reality that our story does not end here.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

I've been grateful for what comes along.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.