Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

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

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.