Suicide kills two people.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.