There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.