"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."

"I talk to God, but the sky is empty."

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."

"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise."

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah."

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

"Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."

"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."

"I'd rather lose a cause that will one day win than win a cause that will some day lose."

"Revolt, my child, revolt is a quick axe cleaving dead wood in the forest by night. The woodsman of the day is the executioner."