When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

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

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

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.

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

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

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