As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

I've come from a very masculine country to a feminine country. England was very masculine; people went from England to abroad, and they landed from above and they said "These are the gods you will worship, these are the crops you will grow, now go away and do it." Which is a manly attitude. Americans go abroad and they say, "Try not to quarrel so much", which is a feminine attitude.

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

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.