Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.