I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.