"It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours."

"Morality is herd instinct in the individual."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"What we once did 'for the sake of God' we now do for the sake of money."

"For others do I wait... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come."

"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true."

"We are who people think we are."

"I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert."

"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."

"I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money."

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

"PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction -- prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives."