Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.
But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of h...
You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.
She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop,...
You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power...
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all over again in them and with them.
I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure i...
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.
The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy — the good an...