Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.

I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.