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….

The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of gr….

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanent….

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate..

What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my….

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself..

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes fr….

You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatia….

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing..

I have found God, but he is insufficient..

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal..

I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast..

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes..

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself..