He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

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

Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.