The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.