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.

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

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.

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.