I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

The key of joy is disobedience.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

To live with a mind full of grudges and jealousy, is to bargain to be constantly punished by negative feelings and emotions.

Happiness is there when you are in love with what you are doing.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.

It is God's hand which has guided everything, and it is God whom we must thank above all.

Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.