Entry 9

The world is a vast temple dedicated to Discord.
Voltaire

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.
Mark Twain

A grave is a tranquillizing object.
William Wordsworth

The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Goethe

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately kills all its pupils.
Berlioz

Entry 8

A man, after he has brushed off the dirt and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well or ill?
John Steinbeck

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Mark Twain

Time wounds all heels.
Bennett Cerf

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck

Entry 7

The whole stinking civilized world lies like a quagmire at the bottom of the pit, and over it, like a mirage, hovers this wavering smile.
Henry Miller

The American way has always been to plunder and exploit and then move on.
Henry Miller

It has been the crowning shame of this age to have exploited the man of genius for sinister ends.
Henry Miller

The mission of man on earth is to remember to remember to remember. To taste everything in eternity as once in time.
Henry Miller

Memory is the talisman of the sleepwalker on the floor of eternity.
Henry Miller

Entry 6

God is clever but he is not dishonest.
Albert Einstein

The only way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
John Barrymore

I am as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
Edgar Allan Poe

Entry 5

Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs.
Mark Twain

Bacon would improve the flavor of an angel.
Mark Twain

I think we're property. I should say we belong to something...
That something owns this earth---all others warned off.
Charles Fort

What, if anything, did Tyrannosaurus do with its puny front legs anyway?
Stephen Jay Gould

We must realize that we know nothing about the origin of man and we have no proofs of man's physical or mental evolution.
P.D. Ouspensky

Entry 4

In all my seventy-two years and a half I have never come across another ass as this human race is.
Mark Twain

Perhaps in the vapid and vaporous air there is a perfume whose complex flower stirs memories, caresses or colors the indistinct desires of the naked being.
Paul Valery

Behind the heavy window, in the soft golden light of a single candle, Nostradamus consulted his ephemeris and plotted the night's course on a horoscope.
John Hogue

The most horrible warfare is the kindest. I shall spread terror by the surprise employment of all my measures. The important thing is the sudden shock of an overwhelming fear of death.
Adolph Hitler

[Years later, when I read this, I think about George W. Bush's. shock and awe bombing of Iraq...a country that did NOT threaten or attack the United States of America.]

Orgies, my dear, orgies are like space travel. There is always the problem of re-entry.
Peter De Vries

Entry 3

The existence of death compels us either to give up life of our own free will, or to change our life in such a way as to give it a meaning that cannot be taken from it by death.
Tolstoy

Immortality is an idea without a future.
Tolstoy

If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: I recognize only one duty and that is to love.
Albert Camus

There is much more strength in a man who reveals himself only when it is necessary.
Albert Camus

ENTRY 2

Battles and armies are not for the yogi.
Milarepa

God long ago abandoned us in order that we might realize the joy of attaining godhood through our own efforts.
Henry Miller

But stones don't come at us from the sky for nothing.
D. H. Lawrence

Violence has been made comfortable.
Albert Camus

Putting a person to death is supressing his chance of perfection.
Albert Camus

ENTRY 1

What is MY LAST NOTEBOOK?

This is the only notebook that remains in which I wrote down notes from books that I have read since about 1979.
The other notebooks were destroyed while I lived in Mexico. The rain drowned my words. Actually, the water washed away the words. I thought that my notebooks would be safe inside of trunks (covered with plastic) outside.

Humanity has shod the giant child,
Progress.
Arthur Rimbaud

Nothing attracts me but clarity.
Paul Valery

Discovery is nothing. The difficulty is to acquire what we discover.
Paul Valery

How much easier life is when you discard things.
A. Sinyavsky