By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.

My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.