"A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice."

"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."

"The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure."

"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand."

"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control."

"I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't."

"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."

"I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail."