“The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange.”

“The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.”

“I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world.And of course I was right.”

“Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.”

“I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was 'Wow!”

“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”