There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.