Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.

Good planning is the foundation of success for almost any project. Start by getting clear on your goal.

A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.

I love to put on frequency music or binaural beats to keep myself centered. It helps me with mental clarity, and it gives me a moment to breathe and be present.

I think we females have a lot of work to do for each other.

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.