One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.