The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.