Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.