Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone.

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.

He looks like something that fell out of a deck of cards!

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

Things that raise your energy usually don't involve humans; things that cause energy loss usually involve humans.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.