I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

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?

Even paranoids have real enemies.

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.

You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest.

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it find a hurt and heal it find a problem and solve it.

Be grateful for small mercies.

Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!

But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.

Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life.