I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy.

Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.