One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.

Just sick enough to be totally confident

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.