If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
The truth is we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.
The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
A man is only as good as what he loves.
To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.
No, really, Herr Nietzche, I have great admiration for you. Sympathy. You want to make us able to live with the void. Not lie ourselves into good-naturedness, trust, ordinary middling human considerat...
I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more te...
I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed. And then? I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed. And what next? I get laid, I take a short holiday, but very soon after I fall upon those same thorns with gr...
Herzog abandoned this theme with characteristic abruptness
Facts always are sensational.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Still, what can thoughtful people and humanists do but struggle toward suitable words? Take me, for instance. I've been writing letters helter-skelter in all directions. More words. I go after reality...
She was cuckoo about dime stores, where she bought cosmetics and pins and combs. After we locked the expensive purchases in the station wagon we went into McCory's or Kresge's and were there by the ho...
Oh, God, Wilhelm prayed, Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and...
Look out! Oh, you chump and weak fool, you are one of a humanity that can't be numbered and not more than the dust of metals scattered in a magnetic field and clinging to the lines of force, determine...