They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.