“If you let the alembic cool, metaphor becomes superstition.”

“The here and the beyond are enough, but there were a few angels for whom it was not enough: who demanded a third dimension--who sought fusions, communes, who ate each other and created sex.”

“Every plant is an individual.Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.”

“There is one class to whom reflection is a fault; is not only a fault, is a sin; is not only a sin, is an atrocity - who cannot bear to exist without their own existence dis-existencing somebody else's existence.”

“If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be. ”

“You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.”

“You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.”