Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.