We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.