We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

Never hold on to anything that's capable of holding back your destiny.

The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.

The truth will finally come out and the truth is: If LSD is used in the right way, it is a very important and very useful agent.

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.