In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again.

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.