But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.