But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

And in any case...there are no more supernatural noises nowadays...

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.