Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.

What a short time I had been given to experience love. I felt as my life had only recently begun and now it would surely end at sunrise.

Your ego decides the humanity in you...Higher the ego lesser the humanity....

As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.