The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.