The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.