Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the contrary, we were made obtuse, we were wrapped in a fog of words and abstractions.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.