“There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.”

“There is only one success: to be able to spend life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.”

“The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.”

“It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way. ”

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”

“Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.”

“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. ”