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

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.