Nothing is real.
Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.
When you’re thirty-five, you can’t take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it…
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
The most dangerous thing is illusion.
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
