Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

The successful writer listens to himself.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.