Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified.

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.

Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.