Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

It is wonderful to live together as brothers and sisters.

Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.

If supernatural aspect of the assignment is lost then the natural aspect manifests

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

He went in with his shuds stowing.

I like expectations, with expectations, you have people coming at you from a place of doubt.

I have a wife and anything. That's the arrangement we have. I have a wife, and she's cool. And also I have anything I want.

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.