Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.