Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view