The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.

The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.

The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.