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

The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

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

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.