I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most vulnerable or suggestible. If they can't get them in school, then they get them when they are hungry, or frightened, or ill, or homeless, or unemployed. Same difference. Here's your gruel, and here's a tract.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.