You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Freedom begins between the ears.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.