All in all, death is something like marriage.

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.

What galled him most was the presumption of these writer types, as if there weren’t actual people in the world, with jobs to do, appointments to keep, wives to appease, but only so much material.

This thing between them, the force of it, could devour the world. And if they picked it, picked them, it might very well cause the end of it.

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

I don't have a stack of scripts...

The man who walks with Henslow.

Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

I was never a rail-thin person.

I've never seen so much suicide...The Bible is full of hope.

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.