In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear the pain and ambiguity of a life situation that they have decided that they cannot stand. (98)

It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.