The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

Blood is the price of victory

Always play for the worst case scenario..If it is the best you'll win anyway

2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

Smiling in Heaven isn't required - it's inevitable.