If you want to be happy, practise it every day

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixites. Those who didn't find out in the sixites will find out in the near future because we're going to have a rerun.

Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time.

Belief is the death of intelligence.