From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusi...
You can forgive a young cunt anything. A young cunt doesn't have to have brains. They're better without brains. But an old cunt, even if she's brilliant, even if she's the most charming woman in the w...
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Like ships men flounder time and time again.
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
We create our fate every day we live.
It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in profusion, and inventors, discoverers, explorers - but where are the great lovers? After a moment's...
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Build your cities proud and high. Lay your sewers. Span your rivers. Work feverishly. Sleep dreamlessly. Sing madly, like the bulbul. Underneath, below the deepest foundations, there lives another rac...
Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses.
Words are loneliness.
The cancer of time is eating us away