Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.

What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.

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

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.

Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.