You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

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.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.