“Now let us see what he can do with it. Let us see if, under easier conditions, he is able to build the planetary paradise he has always desired, or will abuse his new leisure to the destruction of his soul. Let us see if godly power will make him a little more godlike.”

Rolling Stone interview (June 1970)

Little Man and Little Soul.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Of Time and the River (1935)

St. 63.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)

Page 112
2000s, (2008)

On painter Rufino Tamayo.
I Used to Believe I Had Forever — Now I'm Not So Sure (1968)
Context: He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that — great good God, think of it — we're alive, and on our way to weather, from the sea to the hot interior, to watermelon there, a bird at night chasing a child past flowering cactus, a building on fire, barking dogs, and guitar-players not playing at eight o'clock, every picture saying, "Did you live, man? Were you alive back there for a little while? Good for you, good for you, and wasn't it hot, though? Wasn't it great when it was hot, though?"

"Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse"

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)