If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.

Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis.

Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.