So fine a medicine is the will to action.

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.

I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.

A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.

Be in the Now Moment—don’t squander your energy on a past you can’t change or a future which has not yet happened.

Get rid of your little darlings.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

Mediocrity is underrated.

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.

I read a lot of different stuff, but I keep being open to inspiration.

I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.