Even paranoids have real enemies.

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?

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 Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

Tell me and I’ll forget

Did you ask people to crime scenes on dates?

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Turn resolutely to work to recreation or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night.

I hate to sound like an old fuddy duddy, but the game has changed.

There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.