You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.