“I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.”

Hell is – other people!

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

We are our choices.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don’t eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

If I had a superpower it would have to be being able to eat whatever you want and stay skinny.

I never eat salad. I make sure I don’t put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!