I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a b….

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertai….

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition..

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it..

We live at the edge of the miraculous..

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience..

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few..

have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he ….

There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart..

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time f….

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature ….

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity..

I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wa….

Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; livin….

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood..

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be….

There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of….

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense..

New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are th….

Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia,….

If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjust….