I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.