There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

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

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Genius is sorrow's child.

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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.