I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

Reality is just a point of view.

Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others?

I have seen myself backward.

Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought

Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.