What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling a….

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded..

Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us..

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos..

To make living itself an art, that is the goal..

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them a….

The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every g….

Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast..

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had ….

My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, b….

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost….

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there..

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen..

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre..

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long….

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over..

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the bel….

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself ….

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communicati….

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wr….