“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”
André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning
Alternating Current (1967)
“You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly”
The Storm Over the University (December 6, 1990)
Context: Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly.
“High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.”
Introduction to Our Time Is Now: Notes From the High School Underground, John Birmingham, ed. (1970)
Various interviews
“I just think the closer we (as a species) think we get to God, the closer we get to death.”
September 23, 2011
The Opie and Anthony Radio Show
“We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.”
As quoted in SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence (2000) by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, p. 15
Variant: What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.
