He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books