There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.