Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.