Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.