Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum