Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

NOTHING happens by coincidence.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.

I'm definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves - they're reality-addicts, they've got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.