Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1928 Death: March 2, 1982
Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit..
In a one-party system there is always a landslide..
How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?.
Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is th….
What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are fr….
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an erro….
We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a lan….
So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see t….
Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I got a better offer s….
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that….
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically….
The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict..
The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was ….
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally..
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how ….
The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My ….
The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, st….
In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly….
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Ma….
In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real..
Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, he….