How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.