Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

No one has a right to happiness.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.