Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

London; a nation, not a city.

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

If there be no place for wild bison in all of Montana, then surely we have crossed a line between the Last Best Place and the the Once Best Place.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

You can put it another way, of course; you always can.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.