If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.