The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.

I don't have the perfect roadmap drawn out, but I do know which roads I'll never drive down again.

When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?

Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the US, but I didn't click with anyone.

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.

As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.

The goods of the earth are meant for everyone.

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.