Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.