We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.

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.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

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.