“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.”

“Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.”

“How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.”

“Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.”

“Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.”

“Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.”

“When you stop growing you start dying.”