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“Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most people had a sense of being able to control some of the contingencies in their lives. What people knew about had action-value. In the information world created by telegraphy, this sense of potency was lost, precisely because the whole world became context for news. Everything became everyone's business. For the first time, we were sent information which answered no question we had asked, and which, in any case, did not permit the right of reply.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

“Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody, and I will join it at once.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You Are Sitting Now

“An enormous force bends all lines into circles.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

“Oh yes," said Randolph stretching his legs , lighting a mentholated cigarette, "do not take it seriously, what you see here: it's only a joke played on myself by myself... it amuses and horrifies... a rather gaudy grave, you might say. There is no daytime in this room, or night, the seasons are changeless here, and the years, and when I die, if indeed I haven't already, then let me be dead drunk and curled, as in my mother's womb, in the warm blood of darkness. Wouldn't that be an ironic finale for one who, deep in his goddamned soul, sought sweetly the clean-limbed life? bread and water, a simple roof to share with some beloved, nothing more.”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

“There is no logical, rational, pre-structured criterion "out there" with a divine plan. There is no truth "out there" which our weak minds or souls eventually run across. There is this casual, haphazard, amoral process that leaps the logical gaps and brings about newness. And the procedurés only demand is that given talents be invested, risked, doubled, the possibilities explored.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

“Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

“We invite you, in reading this book, to cast away your preconceptions and enter, with us, a magical world where all things are connected to you, and you are connected to all things.”
― Sun Bear, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology

“but he is now so accustomed to seeing that vertical strip of light when he opens his eyes in the morning that he has reached the absurd conclusion that without it he would be trapped forever in the shadows of sleep, in the darkness of his own body and the darkness of the world.”
― José Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

“a crazy elation caught hold of Joel, he ran, he zigzagged, he sang, he was in love, he caught a little tree-toad because he loved it and because he loved it he set it free, watched it bounce, bound like the immense leaping of his heart;”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

“The Earth is a paradise, the only one we will ever know. We will realize it the moment we open our eyes. We don't have to make it a paradise - it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. The man with the gun, the man with murder in his heart, cannot possibly recognize paradise even when he is shown it.”
― Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

“Everything in the universe is connected
Everything is osmosis
You cannot separate any part from the whole
Interdependence rules the cosmic order.”
― Taisen Deshimaru, The Way of True Zen

“A mirror has no heart but plenty of ideas.”
― Malcolm de Chazal, Magical Science

“Only.”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

“And it's special meaning for me was this: It is proof that sometime back when my father was a young, young man, he must have had a moment or two when he felt that he might have reason to take himself and his life seriously.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“Twenty-fours hours of sleeplessness had made her, in my eyes, anyway, and idealized representation of compassionate, long-suffering women of all ages everywhere.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“The picture is supposed to go up just inside the front door, so it's the first thing you see when you come in. It's green. It's about the size of a barn door. It has one vertical orange stripe, and it's called 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony.' Mother wrote a letter to the paper, saying the picture was an insult to the memory of Father, and to the memory of every serious artist who ever lived.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“Gordon watched them go. They were just by-products . The throw-outs of the money-god. All over London, by tens of thousands, draggled old beasts of that description: creeping like unclean beetles to the grave.”
― George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“ants - the pious insect, Randolph called them: they fill me with oh so much admiration and ah oh so much gloom: such puritan spirit in their mindless march of Godly industry, but can so anti-individual a government admit the poetry of what is past understanding? Certainly the man who refused to carry his crumb would find assassins on his trail, and doom in every smile. As for me, I prefer the solitary mole: he is no rose dependent upon thorn and root, nor ant whose time of being is organized by the analterable herd: sightless, he goes his separate way, knowing truth and freedom are attitudes of the spirit.”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

“I feel at peace, content. My questions have been answered. I can accept my alone-life, knowing it's purpose. Interaction, love, is the purpose and the core. Now I see the possibility of a different kind of interaction - and it is something that I can start to learn as soon as I get home, beginning with my little place/house and my plants. How to interact with people this way I do not yet know. [Gift Bearer]”
― Steven Foster, The Book of the Vision Quest: Personal Transformation in the Wilderness

“There are evidences of a very great art in Europe as long as twenty-five thousand years ago, and in Egypt as far back as sixty thousand years. Money had nothing to to do with the production of these treasures. Money will have nothing to do with the art of the future.”
― Henry Miller

“Smythies, you recall, considered hallucination to be a normal part of every child's psychological life.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

“I am not talking to you," said Abrenuncio. "I think in Low Latin.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“How can a republic be the best form of government if the universe, heaven and hell are all a monarchy?”
― Alan W. Watts, Three: The Way of Zen/Nature, Man and Woman/Psychotherapy East and West

“Finally, there are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs. First, use of these
drugs may be dangerous. However, every worth-while exploration is dangerous--climbing
mountains, testing aircraft, rocketing into outer space, skin diving, or collecting botanical
specimens in jungles. But if you value knowledge and the actual delight of exploration more
than mere duration of uneventful life, you are willing to take the risks. It is not really healthy
for monks to practice fasting, and it was hardly hygienic for Jesus to get himself crucified,
but these are risks taken in the course of spiritual adventures.”
― Alan Watts, Zen: A Lecture

“There are various levels above and below the human through which the individual soul may pass in the course of its reincarnations—the angelic, the titanic, the animal, the purgatories, and the realm of the frustrated ghosts.”
― Alan W. Watts, Psychotherapy East and West