A true initiation never ends.

Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.