A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.

Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

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

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

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.