Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

Beauty is looking backward and urging forward, and trying desperately to pay attention to the now.

New day, new delight.

Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.

Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.

My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Power must never be trusted without a check.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day

Prosperity's the very bond of love.