The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.

The only truly consistent are the dead.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.