The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.