Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

"Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

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.

He who lives happiest has forgotten most