And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too