Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.