A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true.