Others can measure their visions by what we see.

I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.

The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . ." and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!