“I still couldn’t accept that this was not some nightmare, like some freak misbinding in a book, a Lawrence novel become, at the turn of a page, one by Kafka.”

Interview by Tom Vowler (2010-13)

"The Superstitions of Fred Anneday, Annday, Anday; a Novel of Real Life" (1935)
How Writing Is Written: Previously Uncollected Writings, vol.II (1974)

Friend of My Youth (2017)

De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: We only know the world as we have lived in it. A lot of things we thought were givens have turned out to be local and temporary phenomena. Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be around, but it turns out they were just two ways of ordering an industrial society. If you were looking for more fundamental human political poles, you’d take anarchy and fascism, for my money. Which are not dependent upon economic trends because they are both a bit mad. One of them is complete abdication of individual responsibility into the collective, and one of them absolute responsibility for the individual. I think these will both still be with us, but fascism becomes less and less possible. We have to accept that we are moving towards some sort of anarchy.

Variant: Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted.

Amanda, Scene Three
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

Source: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

Edward Epstein, "S.F. Finds Its Voice", http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/08/12/MN76094.DTL San Francisco Chronicle, 1998-08-12.
On Laurence Ferlinghetti becoming San Francisco's first poet laureate.
1990s

Variant: The area dividing the brain and the soul
Is affected in many ways by experience --
Some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
Some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
Some lose both and become:
accepted.
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense