If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

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

Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.