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

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.