If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.
I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.
It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.
You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.