I am I, and I wish I weren't.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.