I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.