Ah! How good it feels the hand of an old friend.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it.
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.
