The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

Money can't buy happiness.

It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.