“The hallucinatory drugs only reveal the world of images we contain but do not teach us interpretation, illumination, or enlightenment.”
The Novel of the Future (1969)
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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes

“I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.”

As quoted in Joseph Telushkin's Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History

“Sex, drugs, and image is just enough to get you by in the real world”
Dearest Helpless
Song lyrics, Neon Ballroom (1999)

“Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”
“We see by means of something which illumines us, which we do not see.”
Vemos por algo que nos ilumina; por algo que no vemos.
Voces (1943)

Sermon IV : True Hearing
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

“The greatest optical illusion of all is to believe that an image has only one interpretation.”
Curiopticals (2009).

The World's Last Night (1952)
Context: The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.