All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.