Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.

Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.