45 quotes
American writer (1932–2025)
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.”
"If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination."
on Imagination
"We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love."
on Love
"salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb."
on Life
"Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival."
on Wisdom
"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."
"All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously."
on Mental Health
"The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature."
on Nature
"...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business...."
on Philosophy
"Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain."
"People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up."
on Writing
"In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak."
on Art
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
"Don't confuse symmetry with balance."
"It is more important to be free than to be happy."
on Freedom
"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being."
"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."
"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."
on Values
"Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?"
"There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others."
