I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.