He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.