I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

Don't blindly follow any leader.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.