Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Radiate your lights of love to enlighten the whole world, like the sun.

Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!

Set a thief to catch a thief.

You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.

I love reform better than its modes.

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.