There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.