it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.