"All that is straight lies. All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle."

"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

"The 'highest' states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy."

"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"Only sick music makes money today."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."

"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."

"By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed."

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."

"Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes."

"...it is not by reflection and intelligence, but by perception, that the highest and purest truths are attained."