My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

I don't know when and I don't know how, but you'll get through this. And you'll kick life in the balls just as hard as it's kicked you.

Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart

And I said, 'Do I have leprosy?' And they said, 'You are a dangerous element.

Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

This god, this one word: I.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

I will form good habits and become their slaves.