No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

Society is our extended mind and body.

You are the universe experiencing itself.