Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

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.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.

You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.

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