Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.