I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

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.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

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