“Learn everything that existed in the universe, and whatever was left, thatdwarfish-man-shaped hole in the center, would be him by process of elimination.”

“Though earth and man were gone,And suns and universes ceased to be,And Thou wert left alone,Every existence would exist in Thee.”

“The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”

“Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.”

“The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.”

“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use.”