Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing that buzzes me any more'. But I enjoyed my kids. My wife loved me and I loved her. And eventually the writing came back and I discovered that the writing was enough. Stupid thing is that probably it always had been.