You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

I don’t approve of religion.

When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

A gun is not an argument.