Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.