We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly….

Voyages are accomplished inwardly..

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself..

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it.

The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. The first quivering….

For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world..

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter..

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant..

To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is bes….

I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic..

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your hea….

I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you..

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge..

I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to ….

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern..

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, whi….

A world without hope, but no despair.

With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends….

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, w….

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance..

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companion….