They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.