Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.

But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.

The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and since we are part of it, we as humans are, in the final analysis, thoughts of and thinkers of those thoughts.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Where there's dope, there's hope!

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.