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

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.

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

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.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.