The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.