Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.