“People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.”

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

Without literature, life is hell.

Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.

Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.

Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.

Only the boring get bored.

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

I want to talk about the nature of human beings or how we’re evolving as a race.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.