Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.

Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything without offending somebody.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.