Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from what was going on in the world. After I recovered I was amazed at certain people who had died. I hadn't noticed that they had gone. Not friends ... I'm talking about public figures who had passed away.

For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.