War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Let your broken heart create an open heart

I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.