Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

The more Chaotic I am, the more complete I am.

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

Embrace reality by imagination.

And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

It was the straying that found the path direct.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort.

The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

You can be the lead in your own life.

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

We'll always always protect you.