You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for someone to "go mad" in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.