“Youth is the only thing worth having.”

“If a thing is worth having, it's worth cheating for.”

“Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.”

“As W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”

“Agreement got by compulsion or trickery is not agreement, but a thing akin to slavery. Free minds are the only company worth having.”

“Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.”

“I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.”

“Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.”

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”

“What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.”