Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

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

The purpose of life is to remember.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.