We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.