What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

In the nearest future, those who understood the value of time will rule over those who trivialized time.

It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.