In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.