Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another - like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women.