Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea--if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work.

The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath descended.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind