Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

I was cured all right.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.