The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.