Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.

Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight.

I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that when you do not see me any more you will know that my enemy has finally triumphed.

An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.

...because when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.