Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?