Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they last longer; they also leave behind no hangover, and leave the mental faculties clear and unimpaired. They stimulate the faculties and produce the ideal ground for a peak experience.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.