You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see….

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and see….

A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life - provided he go his own way.... To live o….

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing..

When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever..

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos..

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or s….

When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign.….

After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or….

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread..

Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need mor….

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest..

Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is….

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless ….

America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better lif….

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine..

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing..

Example moves the world more than doctrine..

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery..

Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as on….