Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

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

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.