If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.

How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.... But existence is basically composed of a very few truths ont…

Man has in his hands a lot of violent weapons. He doesn't have the moral standards to go with them.

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to a…