If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.