I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.