If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.