Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.