Wisdom

There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.

Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

Plenty of people think the same thing. All of them are teenagers, mentally if not physically. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, gown men and women who’ve been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God.

... Darkness isn't the opposite of light, it is simplyits absence, and what was radiating from the book was the light that lies on the far side ofdarkness, the light fantastic.It was a rather disappointing purple colour.

If matters go badly now they will not always be so.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.I don't plan it.When I'm outside the saying of it,I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Don’t ever worry what the boys who don’t appreciate originality think of you. They’re fools.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

What does egoism mean? It means to become blind through one’s own vision. The Gnani [the enlightened one] removes the egoism.

Books--oh! No. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.'I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.

The object of art is to give life a light through which you can imagine and see the world.