Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else