Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.
Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
. . . but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.
We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.
The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity. . . the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
Kind words cost you nothing but are sometimes worth more than a million dollars.
Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.