“I take H [hashish] in order to be free. But in order to take H I must already be free.”

utterly sanguine

“taking the time to live.”

he can only enjoy the feeling because he has worked very hard for it.

“visible wretchedness is counterbalanced by a hidden glory.”

she was a believer in wholesomeness and common sense in an age of superstition and quackery.

“The more honestly you put yourself into the story, the more that story will concern others as well.”

“The dullest, most inept and inconsequential snapshot, when isolated, framed (on a wall or by the margins of a book), and paid attention to, takes on all the uncanny significance, fascination, and beauty of R. Mutt’s fountain

“By transferring a fact into words and characters you create other facts that can never recreate the original one.”