The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.

It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.