In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

Self-creation is the highest art.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

We are the eyes through which the Univers observes itself and knows itself divine.

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

If you want the answer—ask the question.

In deep suffering, I got to know divinity within my soul.

Once players have my trust, they have it.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

Bukowski said, "I know I'm good, so I like that people think I'm bad, because it gives me a dimension, effortlessly."