We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can't remember where they are.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Poetry, will you show me where your words find peace?

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial.

Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

I don't regret anything that I ever did. You just look back at things and you either learn from them or get what you can from them but I wouldn't change what I did.