I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.