Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination.

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.