under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?

Belief is the death of intelligence.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.