Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.

... vulgarity has no nation.

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.