“ Birds fly like birds and a man who has taken the devil's weed flies as such.- As birds do?- No, he flies as a man who has taken the weed. Carlos Castaneda
“ When a disease insinuates itself so potently into the imagination of an era, it is often because it impinges on an anxiety latent within that imagination. AIDS loomed so large on the 1980s in part bec… Siddhartha Mukherjee
“ When preparing for Book One, I talked to a couple of psychiatrists about psychosomatic phenomena, neuroses and dissociative conditions, for example the so—called hysterical blindness suffered by many… Les Murray
“ Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost. Eudora Welty
