The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.

If we were in tune and communing with God every moment, where would be the need to pray or ask for anything?

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down.

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.