In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

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.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.

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.