A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Don't look with your eyes. Don't think with your mind. Know with your heart.

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

Love is so blind, it feels right when it's wrong.

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

I hope the new health care exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act will provide some help.

I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies.

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.