“Inner Worlds”
“Such was my young character at this stage of my life. In me hid bestial terrors and metal-melting beauties, memories ancient and new; images I had seen flitted there beside pictures I had viewed. Hundreds of children, women and men, businessmen, party girls, laborers, kids at play, housewives, drunks, teachers, preachers, prostitutes, bus drivers, coaches, perverts, artists, and scores of others peopled my memory. I held within myself tales of adventure and glory, rhymes of nursery school, Christmas poems, and family stories passed down through the generations. Ancient terrors and imprisoning loves had been imprinted on the tissues of my near-consciousness. Spiritual glories, the inflation of vast expansion, the sweet taste of peace, the innocence of imagination, the savor of bliss, all were there within me, waiting to be rediscovered.”