Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Do not lose your heart, " she said. What she did not tell me was that the surest way to lose it was to hold it tight.

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

I have loved every single person I met in my life, just the definition and situation varied.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

People who succeed speak well of themselves to themselves.

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.