If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having concerned myself with such people, because I think that most of us are disturbed.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

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