Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any.

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.