It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)

Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.

After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let’s get it on.'

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.

To look at possibility is to be free.

I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.