Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Give up trying to make me give up

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.