Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

In the end, everything is a gag.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.