If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.

He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.