I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.