Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

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

Better to separate than never to marry.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.