I think I may well be a Jew.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.

The most deafening sound in all creation, is the sound of absolute silence.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.