For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.
I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.
If you're going to do an interview about a movie or anything like that, you're vulnerable. You say stupid things. Or if you're applying for a green card you feel very vulnerable and you're likely to spout out something stupid in the middle of it all.
It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.
The man who is egoless is the man who has no ideals. Let this be the criterion, and you have stumbled upon a fundamental. The man of no ego is the man of no ideals. Then how can the ego be created? - the very energy is missing. The energy comes out of friction, conflict, struggle, will.
Only God knows You’re talking to him now.
Greenwich Village. . . the village of low rents and high arts.